Want to attract tourists? Create Erie radio station: Letters to the editor

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Mar 14, 2018 at 2:01 AM

If you want to catch fish, take your nets to where there are fish. If you want to catch tourists, set up signs on Interstate 90 and advertise a radio station to tune in to for all local activities.

For example, we have thousands of hotel rooms at varying price ranges. For rainy days, we have Splash Lagoon and museums. In the summer, there is Waldameer Park & Water World, Presque Isle, 30 golf courses and baseball. In fall, there is salmon fishing. In the winter, there is bowling, ice hockey and ice skating. Get the idea? You can fill in the correct numbers and activities and run it continuously.

— Cloyd Rose, Erie

Lawmakers value own hides

more than public safety

I know the gun nuts don't want to hear this, but it is devilishly obvious that guns kill people. Why are the highly educated, elitist politicians afraid to ban military assault rifles? Are they afraid to do the right thing, or are they afraid to lose their seats in Congress?

It is a tough choice — seek public integrity or be a pawn to ignorance. Stop manufacturing these weapons for mass consumption! Does your child need to be killed before our representatives take action?

Please do not run for national office if you are willing to do nothing. Stand up for what is right if you have power or take a seat and watch the carnage that you help permit.

— Ray Jones, Erie

Thank you for life-saving

care at Saint Vincent

This letter is a long time coming. On Sept. 24, 2016, my husband Jim found me unresponsive at home. Thank God EmergyCare responded quickly to his 911 call. They took me to the Saint Vincent Hospital emergency department. My husband was given my grim prognosis, and had to make the hard decision of what care I was to receive. He was told I probably would have brain damage. Regardless, he chose to have everything done for me. He was told it would take a miracle for me to survive. I was at that point the sickest patient in the hospital.

I was granted that miracle with prayers from everyone. I spent four days in the cardiac intensive care unit at Saint Vincent, many more days in the hospital and finally was transported to the Saint Vincent rehab unit, from which I was finally discharged approximately 27 days after the start of this saga.

I owe so many people. From the people who transported me to the hospital from EmergyCare to the many doctors who cared for me and for the excellent care I received at Saint Vincent Hospital. I was touched by so many caregivers. How do you thank so many people? It's not possible. I am hoping that by this late letter they will recognize my name and remember me and my heartfelt thanks.

— Mary Rose Szympruch, Erie

St. Martin Center is still

serving needs in Erie

St. Martin Center Inc. continues to receive 50 to 70 phone calls per day requesting emergency and basic needs assistance. Please note that St. Martin Center Inc., a Catholic Charities agency, is still committed to addressing these vital community needs. We strongly believe that by meeting these basic needs, it will ultimately lead to improved conditions for everyone and it will move our entire community forward.

David González, CEO, St. Martin Center Inc., Erie

Elected Democrats should

not give up power to GOP

Erie County residents need to remember the willful damage and power grabs Republicans have forced on Erie County, our commonwealth, our nation and the whole world.

Erie County, and all of Pennsylvania, was viciously gerrymandered by Republican legislators to their full advantage and control of our state Legislature.

Federal government is a disaster. Republicans continue to act in their own best interest, not our nation's best interest. They have not been ethical. They have done many things only to promote and perpetuate their power and control.

Before a Republican, or anyone, is given a civic or community position, by or through a Democratic administration, questions need to be asked and clearly answered. Do they support the Republican gerrymandering? Do they support President Donald Trump's administration? Do they support the National Rifle Association? How about the Republican tax cuts? Do they support assault-weapon control legislation? These questions are important for Erie County residents to know their honest answers.

Republicans would not put a Democratic competitor into a government or civic position. We know this.

— Mary Zuck, Erie

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